Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site uvm-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!dartvax!uvm-gen!uvm-cs!hartley From: hartley@uvm-cs.UUCP (Steve) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.text Subject: nroff annotations within keeps Message-ID: <425@uvm-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 20:01:39 EDT Article-I.D.: uvm-cs.425 Posted: Tue Sep 3 20:01:39 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 06:49:15 EDT Expires: Mon, 30-Sep-85 00:00:00 EDT Organization: UVM Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.unix:5559 net.text:594 On pages 15-16 of the 4.2 BSD tutorial "Using nroff and -me" is described the method of using the transparency characters "\!" to defer the processing of an index entry until the figure is output so that the page number is correct. .(z .(c Text of figure .)c .ce Figure 5. \!.(x f \!Figure 5 \!.)x .)z I would like to put the stuff before "Text of figure" in one macro and the stuff after in another, but I cannot get the transparency part to work. Does anybody know how to get this to work? Thanks. -- "If that's true, then I'm the Pope!" Stephen J. Hartley USENET: {decvax,ihnp4}!dartvax!uvm-gen!uvm-cs!hartley University of Vermont CSNET: hartley%uvm@csnet-relay (802) 656-3330, 862-5323 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com